Showing posts with label self-publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-publishing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Junior fiction finalists: New Zealand Children's Book awards 2016

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A photo from the 2016 New Zealand Children's Book Awards ceremony, held at Circa Theatre in Wellington on 8 August 2016.     These...
Friday, 10 June 2016

Bold Ship shortlisted for the New Zealand Children's Book Awards

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  I'm so excited that The Bold Ship Phenomenal has been shortlisted for the 2016 New Zealand Children's Book Awards . The...
Friday, 11 March 2016

Storylines Notable Book Awards 2016

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I'm grinning from ear to ear. The Bold Ship Phenomenal  has been awarded a Storylines Notable Book Award for 2016 . I'm so chuf...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Book and egg giveaway

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What is it about egg-shaped chocolate that makes it taste so much better? To celebrate the arrival of Easter eggs in the shops (one of my ...
Sunday, 14 February 2016

Ms Blair recommends: The Bold Ship Phenomenal by Sarah Johnson

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A nice review of my book by New Zealand book girl (Chrissi Blair) on her blog. I've had a great time this morning trawling through...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Happy end of 2015

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I think it's as important to celebrate the year that's just past (or if it hasn't been happy, to at least acknowledge it), as ...
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Bold Ship Phenomenal listed as best Christmas buy

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I'm chuffed that my book, The Bold Ship Phenomenal , was listed by The New Zealand Herald 's Canvas magazine as one of the best book...

Enjoy a good scare? Author Sue Copsey tells us about her latest spooky story for kids...

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I have just finished reading Sue Copsey's fabulous ghost story for kids - The Ghosts of Tarawera (Treehouse Books, 2015). The Ghosts...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

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Tui Allen has loaded this review about my book on Goodreads . Tui is an author in her own right, and our local New Zealand Society of A...
Friday, 21 August 2015

A launch, a festival and a trio of reviews

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What a week! On Saturday I launched my latest children's book (twice) at the Word Café writers and readers festival: once for adults an...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Conversations in self-publishing for the serially challenged 5: crunching the numbers

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  The Bold Ship Phenomenal is safely out of my hands – in China being printed – so I thought I would look at the thorny question of c...
Friday, 5 June 2015

It’s a first – twice

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I’ve had two pleasant surprises and two firsts in one week. First (of the firsts) is this online listing for The Bold Ship Phenomenal on...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Conversations about self-publishing for the serially challenged 4: dotting your i’s

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Looking at the title I chose for this series of blogs, I’m beginning to feel rather less serially challenged than when I began. I realis...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

The professional edit: Conversations about self-publishing for the serially challenged 3

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I am two-thirds of the way through having the manuscript for my hopefully soon to be self-published book, The Bold Ship Phenomenal , edi...
Friday, 29 August 2014

The structural edit: Conversations about self-publishing for the serially challenged 2

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Phew! That was a mission. I smile to see that, when I decided that the first thing I needed to do to get my manuscript – the Bold Ship Ph...
Friday, 30 May 2014

Conversations about self-publishing for the serially challenged

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It was a good week last week. I sent off two stories to publishers (with fingers tied in double-bows, sheep’s shanks and half-hitches) and...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Catch up with two talented Waikato writers: Doug Wilson and Sharon Holt

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Sorry I've been a bit quiet recently. It's because I'm blogging elsewhere, on the Between the Lines exhibition site. Between t...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

The next step

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Voting has closed for the Kobo Prize, so thank you to everyone who voted for me (and to those who didn’t, but were nice enough to read m...